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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c6af79 | no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. i will always be yours. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ab2e3f2 | Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?" "Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain." "Done that once today," Jason said." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c524670 | I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 3abb107 | In memory, everything seems to happen to music. | Tennessee Williams | ||
| 9c28b96 | He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black." "I prefer canine-American," said Total." | James Patterson | ||
| 64a6282 | It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, ".. | humor h2g2 ford-prefect hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy democracy | Douglas Adams | |
| cf9a2d2 | The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of pl.. | evolution suffering fear science indifference design starvation disease purpose natural-selection | Richard Dawkins | |
| 215403a | I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway. | David Levithan | ||
| 071b498 | Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go? | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 25dab40 | we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers | Carl Sagan | ||
| f20171d | Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world. | Michel Houellebecq | ||
| 2dbdb2c | I want to make my own discoveries.......penetrate the evil which attracts me | Anais Nin | ||
| dba67fb | Living is a risk,' I snapped at him. 'Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 36e5d7b | Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. | humor kronos packman percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 183113c | Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 9cd1556 | Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. | inspirational | Richard Bach | |
| 398941c | You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you? | humor inspirational | David Nicholls | |
| ededd07 | Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master | inspirational poetic sweet | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| 3cd6dbc | I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect. | respected respectful respecting respecting-yourself human inspiration inspirational-quotes motivation motivational love philosophy wisdom inspirational breaking-up respectable breakups breakup motivational-quotes respecting-others compromise wisdom-quotes respect self-respect humans | Amit Kalantri | |
| 2a5cabf | So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes f.. | inspirational | Christopher McCandless | |
| a84d94f | I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right. | inspirational | Anne Lamott | |
| 1ecdc26 | You have every right to a beautiful life. | life inspirational song-lyrics | Selena Gomez | |
| b58141f | Sure. Whatever. She's all yours." Daemon grinned. "That she is." My hand was twitching to connect with his face. "I am not yours." A small part of me wanted his to deny my words, though. "Shush it," he said, walking up to me. "How about I shush it right up you--" "Kitten, your language is so unladylike." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 125e1a4 | It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 2c0b291 | You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b849fb5 | It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty... | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 2331b46 | I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy. | Jane Austen | ||
| 65772b8 | I try all things, I achieve what I can. | Herman Melville | ||
| 3acdcc7 | But she was her own champion now. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b25c89a | Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f6e4f42 | I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 33b5c36 | For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6f46692 | She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger | support protection | Paulo Coelho | |
| 4fc227a | Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bbadcb9 | So I'm your huntress and thief?" His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, "You are my salvation, Feyre." | love huntress rhysand thief | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 00015c3 | I wish to go on living even after my death. | Anne Frank | ||
| 6fda7ea | Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 1a13ffb | She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day. | love | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 8f1bb0d | Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 512c4d1 | Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork. | funny bad-ass | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 07e9300 | It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family. | Stephen King | ||
| 6afa356 | No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. | Stephen King | ||
| aa16a2c | It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 6962fbc | They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. | amecian-fiction jazz-age-stories fitzgerald | F. Scott Fitzgerald |