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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d7efdc | I began to swim, an armless silver mermaid, using only my hips to generate motion, until finally my ass scraped against the lake's mucky bottom. I turned then and used my hips and waist to roll three times, until I came ashore near a ratty green towel. They'd left me a towel. How thoughtful. | John Green | ||
| 3e89387 | In the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined. | John Green | ||
| d5e2a7d | In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute-- how dismissive it is, how it's the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, "Feel Bad About Yourself." | John Green | ||
| 01db9c0 | I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. | John Green | ||
| cae02f5 | That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps. | John Green | ||
| ce5a52f | I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid. | leaving paper-towns | John Green | |
| 7e21348 | All salvation is temporary | John Green | ||
| 1e5d4f6 | Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering | John Green | ||
| 769b8b8 | If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others. | John (Fire) Lame Deer | ||
| aa81963 | Oh no you didn't," Radar says when I show him why we're laughing. "Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt." | paper-towns quentin-jacobsen radar | John Green | |
| df9c08a | She loved mysteries so much, that she became one | quentin-jacobsen | John Green | |
| 2ffb6f7 | The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling. | John Green | ||
| bf4464d | Te sientes mejor? le pregunto. No murmuro Isaac. Es lo que pasa con el dolor dijo Augustus. Volvio la mirada hacia mi y anadio: Hay que sentirlo. | John Green | ||
| 095ef52 | I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. | John Green | ||
| 771540f | AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed. 'So that's Sara,' I said. 'Yes.' 'She seems nice. | colonel funny john-green looking-for-alaska miles pudge | John Green | |
| da6f44b | The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don't know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening. | John Green | ||
| b75ff10 | The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. That's God, I think, the rising sun and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. I don't believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us. | John Green | ||
| c37eb66 | We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear? | John Green | ||
| a73f517 | Between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes & two & a half working pairs of lungs. | hazel-grace-lancaster tfios | John Green | |
| 4acc2b6 | I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus. | John Green | ||
| f034735 | Green pine trees, cranes and turtles ... You must tell a story of your hard times And laugh twice. | John Hersey | ||
| 2102aa8 | Robin Hood. To a Friend. No! those days are gone away, And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried all Under the down-trodden pall Ofthe leaves of many years: Many times have winter's shears, Frozen North, and chilling East, Sounded tempests to the feast Of the forest's whispering fleeces, Since men knew nor rent nor leases. No, the bugle sounds no more, And the twanging bow no more; Silent is the ivory shrill Past the heath.. | John Keats | ||
| f2b684a | She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes. | John Green | ||
| 685a857 | There's no need to suffer. Which I'd argue is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the human predicament, but okay. | John Green | ||
| 08453b8 | It's gas! It's gonna blow!" Ben shouts. He throws open the passenger door and takes off, running in a panic. He hurdles a split-rail fence and tears across a hay field. I get out as well, but not in quite the same hurry. Radar is outside, too, and as Ben hauls ass, Radar is laughing. "It's the beer," he says." | John Green | ||
| e22d982 | Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat. | John Green | ||
| cbba2b5 | Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are swee.. | John Keats | ||
| 55d7911 | Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds. | love | John Green | |
| 446af26 | Were they ready? Did the sun rise in the east and set in the fucking west? | l-a-banks | L.A. Banks | |
| 5ad658f | Ria snorted. "Leo's pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?" | Lora Leigh | ||
| cfbd217 | Callan took a deep breath. "I never expected you." He shook his head with an edge of amusement. "You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler." "Naw, just a determined woman." She grinned against his shoulder. "I know a good thing when I see it jacking off." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 76988f0 | I hate Breeds," she muttered. "Do you know that? You and your sharp, damned noses. Just because I want to doesn't mean I should. Hell, I want cheesecake but I know better. It goes right to my hips. Does that mean I have to eat it anyway?" He stared back at her in disbelief. "You're comparing me to cheesecake?" Offended male fury and outrage glittered in his eyes. She huffed, "Well, the same principle applies." | Lora Leigh | ||
| dd08362 | Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it | Lora Leigh | ||
| 1953744 | Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 560a59a | Asking for something is easy... being responsible for it is the part that develops character. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 348592a | Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| e2afec1 | TEN BREAKUP COMMANDMENTS: 1. Move out 2. You cannot be friends 3. Do not process this break-up together 4. Do not bad mouth your ex to other people 5. Get rid of anything that reminds of him 6. Start and exercise regimen 7. Pursue an interest you could not have pursued while you and your ex were together 8. Take a vacation 9. Embrace Change 10. Go on a date | Melissa Kantor | ||
| c94d7e3 | The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. | hero life | Grace Metalious | |
| 6c26ad0 | When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 769ebb5 | The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 8a5a165 | Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. | hurston memory men-and-women | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 21ef5bc | She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief. | poignant | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| a90a083 | That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. | Craig Ferguson | ||
| 2f9b609 | Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy" | history | Evan Thomas |