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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e8e6054 | The entire sky erupted into hundreds of streaks of light. I never felt so alive. I wished that you were here with me or me with you. But I think you were. Call me crazy, but it was a moment, Lila, and I'm glad I shared it with you. Even if it was from a couple hundred miles away. ~Lincoln | Katie McGarry | ||
| ccca0f9 | I feel small against him, fragile. Like he's realized the secret I've hidden: that I'm breakable, if not already broken. | Katie McGarry | ||
| cfcad14 | If he'll let me. But he left the hospital without talking to me. I don't know what that means."Screw that. "Yes, of course I'll see him again. Isaiah and I are friends and he's going to realize that evenif I have to take a two-by-four to him." | friendship humor isaiah | Katie McGarry | |
| 82a7c19 | My little nymph's laughter filled my soul. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 6cc6435 | Don't hide from me, baby. We've been through too much for that." Echo leaned into me, placing her head on my shoulder and letting me wrap an arm around her. "I've missed you, too, Noah. I'm tired of ignoring you." "Then don't." Ignoring her hurt like hell. Acknowledging her had to be better." | Katie McGarry | ||
| f13af86 | Hey, Breanna." I glance over my shoulder. "Yes?" "Be safe." Those are two enticing and lovely words. "I will be. I have you protecting me, right?" Maybe I'm misreading Razor, but his eyes travel my body like he might toss me onto the bed of the truck and kiss me in a way I've never been kissed before. "Don't worry. I completely have your back." | Katie McGarry | ||
| b630883 | Because somebody out there fucking loves you and doesn't deserve the type of hurt you jumping would have caused. Killing yourself doesn't solve your problems. It just hands them to somebody else. | Katie McGarry | ||
| a69dd2a | this sort of feels like green." "This is me being blue. Don't worry - you're still yellow" | truth | Katie McGarry | |
| 1bbbba5 | War always takes you by surprise. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 2e438e2 | If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened. "Then I'll take every care." "You promise me?" "I promise you." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 9cbbefa | Iain didn't go back to sleep for a long while. He continued to think about all the logical reasons he would never allow himself to be turned into a lovesick weakling like Patrick, and when he finally fell asleep, he had convinced himself that he would distance his heart from his mind. He dreamed about her. | Julie Garwood | ||
| e113002 | Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 850c01c | Cole Clayborne: I'm that transparent? Daniel Ryan: No, but she is. She's always looking at you like she's thinking about shooting you. Cole: *grins* It's love all right. Daniel: How can you be so sure? Everyone who meets you wants to shoot you. Cole: We're getting married. Daniel: Has she agreed? Cole: No. Daniel: *laughs* Then how do you think you're going to get her to marry you? Cole: *smiles* Ever hear of a shotgun wedding? Daniel: N.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 03f444a | Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance. | Julie Garwood | ||
| efa0486 | foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 15520c0 | I might be able to help, Daigian," Nynaeve said, leaning forward, laying her hand on the other woman's knee. "If I were to attempt a Healing, perhaps..." "No," the woman said curtly. "But--" "I doubt you could help." "Anything can be Healed," Nynaeve said stubbornly, "even if we don't know how yet. Anything save death." "And what would you do, dear?" Daigian asked. [...] "I could do something," Nynaeve said. "This pain you feel, it has to b.. | Robert Jordan | ||
| d9b1fcc | The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain" | Robert Jordan | ||
| 3ece6d7 | You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease." -General Galgan to Mat" | Robert Jordan | ||
| 52662c4 | The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps." | Robert Jordan | ||
| 1f64d40 | She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die. | moiraine | Robert Jordan | |
| 23a63b2 | I, Perrin Aybara, do pledge you my love, Faile Bashere, for as long as I live" "What I possess in this world I give to you." "I will keep you and hold you, succor and tend you, protect and shelter you, for all the days of my life." "I am yours, always and forever." | perrin | Robert Jordan | |
| 60e83ec | And the Shadow fell upon the land, and the world was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him the.. | Robert Jordan | ||
| d03cd1c | Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 10fa49d | To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 24eba07 | Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows. | salvation | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 74cfe8b | He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things'. | passion | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| f9b209b | In distilled form, though, the explanations of both the right and the left have become mirror images of each other. They are stories of conspiracy, of America being hijacked by an evil cabal. Like all good conspiracy theories, both tales contain just enough truth to satisfy those predisposed to believe in them, without admitting any contradictions that might shake up those assumptions. Their purpose is not to persuade the other side but to .. | Barack Obama | ||
| fdf09df | Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism, and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a l.. | Barack Obama | ||
| 3fdf539 | The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you. | Mao Zedong | ||
| 83e14b1 | Nobody can spare themselves the waiting and most will be unable to bear this torment, but will throw themselves with greed back at men, things, and thoughts, whose slaves they will become from then on. Since then it will have been clearly proved that this man is incapable of enduring beyond things, men, and thoughts, and they will hence become his master and he will become their fool, since he cannot be without them, not until even his soul.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 1e345c8 | The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unco.. | christ coniunctio-oppositorum enlightenment individuation psychoanalysis religion the-meaning-of-life | C.G. Jung | |
| a721df2 | One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them. | Alice Munro | ||
| a0cb19c | But there was an important and essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and it's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. | love music nick-hornby records | Nick Hornby | |
| f04f5fe | All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll learn nothing from it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 11ea948 | And it's not like you never do anything wrong ever, is it?' said Marcus. 'I mean...' He had to be careful here. He knew he couldn't say too much or even anything at all about the hospital stuff. 'I mean how come I got to know Will in the first place?' Because you threw a bloody great baguette at a duck's head and killed it, basically,' said Will. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 4efa599 | If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable--if the sea wants you and your time has come. | 1966 drowning futility orlov sailing swimming | James Clavell | |
| 35acb75 | Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving. | political-correctness | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 07c0cef | Sports contained the truth, I decided, the unspoken truth (how quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound), and it seemed hard to believe that I had never understood this before. They rewarded effortlessness and unself-consciousness; they confirmed that yes, there are rankings of skill and value and that everyone knows what they are (seeing those guys who were subbed with two seconds left befor.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 1203bac | She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people? | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 4285317 | We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn't dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I t.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 058b43f | All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he'd ever witnessed waking--the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving thro.. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 4ed95a4 | But they hushed, all at once and quite abruptly, when he stood still at center stage, his arms straight out from his shoulders, and went rigid, and began to tremble with a massive inner dynamism. Nobody present had ever seen anyone stand so still and yet so strangely mobile. He laid his head back until his scalp contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose in the auditorium like a wind coming from all four dir.. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 8088b99 | Or maybe that wasn't the time it snowed. Maybe it was the time we slept in the truck and I rolled over on the bunnies and flattened them. It doesn't matter. What's important for me to remember now is that early the next morning the snow was melted off the windshield and the daylight woke me up. A mist covered everything and, with the sunshine, was beginning to grow sharp and strange. The bunnies weren't a problem yet, or they'd already been.. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 43b22a3 | He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other. | Denis Johnson |