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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d4fa6cf | He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. | god son | Cormac McCarthy | |
| bcbc632 | Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own. | truth | Salman Rushdie | |
| 4ae085b | It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. | carroll memory | Lewis Carroll | |
| 47d51e4 | Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impo.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d4819ac | How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2311820 | Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. | men women fear | Julian Barnes | |
| 6353e1a | Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 06067f9 | Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. | Meg Cabot | ||
| a9f2295 | And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!" | Maurice Sendak | ||
| bcae542 | If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. | poetry | Walt Whitman | |
| 6d7db0e | When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker ... but as survivors. Survivors who don't.. | depression fear mental-health-stigma recovery-quotes stigma stigmatized shame recovery mental-illness mental-health survivors | Jenny Lawson | |
| c6aff51 | Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me! | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 341be07 | But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted. | desire | Neil Gaiman | |
| abb954e | They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 5910356 | His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long. | Veronica Roth | ||
| edbb27a | No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest. | perception | John O'Donohue | |
| e6e04a1 | He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| ccdfe09 | The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| e6f8336 | Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. | Amy Tan | ||
| 7b6eda0 | We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience." | Joan Didion | ||
| df7be10 | What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now? | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ad09d5d | I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.' ...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the ligh.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 4429657 | Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fa2fec0 | It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory | inspirational remembrance | Paulo Coelho | |
| 5c15884 | Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| f896f2b | It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. | ged soul | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6bdd80c | And one more thing. About my name -- Artemis -- you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 227cbd2 | Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always being translated from the French. The tint and taint of illicit, illegitimate affections. Dictionary meaning: . Impermanent. Unfamilial. Inextricably linked to sex. I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted lover, and to be loved. There is no word for the recipient of t.. | David Levithan | ||
| d7d2b76 | The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a.. | life | Oscar Wilde | |
| 75368f7 | I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies. | true-love | John Green | |
| d355f7b | Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart. Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Percy and Annabeth were a perfect example of why. You should have to make someone`s heart whole; that was a much better test. | love awww aphrodite piper-mclean percabeth percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| e9cd2c2 | All's well that ends well. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6670535 | This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do. | responsibility choice | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1a6735e | Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun. | life inspirational attitude | Lana Del Rey | |
| 39405f4 | Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars. | trust inspirational | Santosh Kalwar | |
| 38c3f5b | An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. | inspirational | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 44f6888 | It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often in.. | suicide work humor life | Marian Keyes | |
| a4294b6 | The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| a40ae84 | I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. | numbness stillness normalcy | Sylvia Plath | |
| c32c23f | Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 0b18a61 | I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 68e1571 | some stories don't need telling | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e23aa8d | Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you? | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 79050dd | I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish. | fear-of-death | Mark Haddon |