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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19d0ec3 | Thunder boomed overhead. Lightning flashed, and the bars on the nearest window burst into sizzling, melted stubs of iron. Jason flew in like Peter Pan, electricity sparking around him and his gold sword steaming. Leo whistled appreciatively. "Man, you just wasted an entrance." Jason frowned. He noticed the hog-tied Kerkopes. "What the--" "All by myself," Leo said. "I'm special that way." -- | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 3be29bf | Fear robs you of your freedom to make the right choice in life that can bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. On the other side of fear, lies freedom. If you want to grow, you need to be brave and take risks. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not growing. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote growth fearless life-philosophy | Roy T. Bennett | |
| d746c02 | Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. | inspirational incrementalism | Edmund Burke | |
| d5cf384 | I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. | pain identity | Orson Scott Card | |
| 509c612 | Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream. | sanity dreams insanity | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 7c21663 | As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e84c3a0 | You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of. | Roald Dahl | ||
| adafc00 | If there's anything I can do- I know there probably isn't, but..." Just be here" | derek | Kelley Armstrong | |
| cd71d0d | Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. | limitations overcoming-obstacles impossibilities | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| c4f847b | Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. | hope life | Arthur Golden | |
| e228834 | I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| bda0e2d | A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does | love warrior | Dan Millman | |
| 1b3cc66 | I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 60ad5e0 | Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 327e3c9 | Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. | wonder | Betty Smith | |
| f6940bc | In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter--they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught. | investigations half-moon girls mystery | Eoin Colfer | |
| a119fc7 | The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 006db51 | Bella: "Then why are you wearing that bandage like a sash?" Phury: "It makes my ass look smaller." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 4a33fab | My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ : Chapter 19] | intelligence intellectuals | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 8a5394c | He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable. | insurgent four tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 8bded4b | Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ada7ff2 | You know what? Lets go." I shot Aiden a defiant look. "Come on Seth. Let's go continue our lovers' quarrel." "Yes my love, that sounds fantastic. Don't forget to grab a dagger so you can poke my eyeballs out." | alex seth pure | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 9d00f7d | Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| b1dd01b | It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light .. | inspirational | C.S. Lewis | |
| a3589c9 | Except fang. I glared at him. "Go on, try to stop me, I dare you." It was like the old days when we used to wrestle, each trying to get the better of the other. I was ready to take him down, my hands curled into fist. "I was just going to say be careful," Fang told me. He stepped closer and brushed some hair out of my eyes. "And I've got your back." He motioned with his head toward the torpedo chamber. Oh my God. It hit me like a tsunami th.. | love maximu-ride | James Patterson | |
| f9d88a7 | In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5c66c98 | I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." -- | Thomas Sowell | ||
| b3a7693 | Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. | reality life truth strangeness invention | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 09cb42b | I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves. | individualism | Hermann Hesse | |
| 3efdc69 | the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6531fad | Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it. | Kim Harrison | ||
| ab49a2a | Why a raven?" "To honor my father." "The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?" "Yes." "What does it say?" "Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift." "The raven is holding a bloody sword." "I never said it was a nice gift." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 355a39e | I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d18592f | The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me. | Rick Riordan | ||
| dbbece8 | God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 96b3638 | Crossing the room, he stopped infront of me. "I'm not going to bite." "That's good." "Unless you want me to," He said with a devilish grin." | bite-me onyx lux daemon katy teaser | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| e65a347 | I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f1db7ea | No one is like you, Alex." I grinned. "I'll take that as a compliment." "It is." He nudged me again, and my grin gew into another ludicrous smile- the kind Caleb gave Olivia when they weren't tearing each other's heads off. "You're incredibly intelligent, Alex. Funny and..." "Pretty?" "No, not pretty." "Cute?" "No." I frowned. "Well, then." Aiden's laugh sent shivers through me. "I was going to say 'stunning.' You're stunningly beautiful." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ec4c9a3 | words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. | words joy wonder limits | Jodi Picoult | |
| f6fedee | He had a newspaper rolled in his hand, bearing down on me like a puppy that had piddled on the carpet. "Bad Chloe," I muttered. "What?" I'd forgotten his bionic hearing. "Bad Chloe." I gestured at the rolled-up paper and put out my hand. "Get it over with." | derek | Kelley Armstrong | |
| eef17a2 | A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. | humor melancholy wit | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 5b88a1a | He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 6c4a174 | It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2df5933 | I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion. | religion tolerance | Elizabeth Gilbert |