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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df82952 | Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own th.. | death happiness moment-of-being tom-stoppard utopias meaning-of-life | Tom Stoppard | |
| 84c3c65 | Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear-- even as you save something to love... | relationship love | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 2a9d075 | Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," Harry said quietly. "It saved my life last June." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bff8e0e | Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. "You came for me." He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero. "Don't sound so surprised." Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. "It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market." -- | humor love cress thorne moment | Marissa Meyer | |
| 017bd1b | I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 86d5bc4 | The world isn't fair, Calvin." "I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?" | humor comics fairness | Bill Watterson | |
| 322e876 | And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles | Walt Whitman | ||
| 2bfa771 | Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier")." | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 9250e20 | For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most. | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | ||
| 917e6f8 | He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. | William Shakespeare | ||
| e3b4cdf | Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it 'opening your eyes again.' But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest, just endless... endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything. All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Lucky humans, who can close your minds to the endless deeps of space! You have this thing you call... boredom? That is the r.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 79fae87 | Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again | self-awareness change inspirational | Rumi | |
| 2b3a87d | To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 1d4828a | Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. | seasons life spring desire wanderlust nostalgia | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 2d8e97f | Maktub," she said. "If I am really part of your dream, you'll come back one day." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7367374 | I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don't go on top of the love. Maybe it's like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky - whoa. | David Levithan | ||
| bb1b031 | If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains. | relationships love | Charles Bukowski | |
| 768beaa | In the time of your life, live--so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encou.. | William Saroyan | ||
| 86ad119 | I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, | Shel Silverstein | ||
| de8a0c0 | Sadness of being misunderstood [ ]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds, Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness... | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a90c272 | Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered. | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 56d34b8 | There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore. "Think about it," he says, a faint smile curling his lips. " You don't get to pick again." A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. "Tris," I say firmly." | remade tris | Veronica Roth | |
| dbbd127 | When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him. | knowing-your-opponent pawns manipulation | George R.R. Martin | |
| f848e99 | We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world | inspirational adversity personal-growth | Helen Keller | |
| f93b115 | After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| decc456 | fy Gmr jdl sysy s'l 'Hd lnwb wzyran : - hl tstTy` 'n tdlny `l~ shkhS Thr lm ylwth? - f'jb lwzyr mtHdy. - lyk - `l~ sbyl lmthl l lHSr - l'Tfl wlm`twhyn wlmjnyn fldny m zlt bkhyr. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 19d223a | But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. | time heart the-little-prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 8dd5199 | You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it? | John Steinbeck | ||
| a60ed37 | It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a6737dd | Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it. | sense-of-smell perfumery odors scent perfume | Patrick Süskind | |
| bc44443 | I have to return some videotapes | funny humor bale videotapes bret easton ellis psycho return christian | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| c46ef13 | Aelin Galathynius had raised an army not just to challenge Morath, but to rattle the stars. | celaena-sardothien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9802b67 | He showed the words "chocolate cake" to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. "Guilt" was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: "celebration." | politics chocolate-cake connotations word-association chocolate semantics french food guilt | Michael Pollan | |
| f67b101 | That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! | uniqueness | Margaret Mitchell | |
| c156700 | Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should. | name-calling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 19f28d1 | If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. | George Eliot | ||
| 99f77b1 | Who wills, Can. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 3580f0c | Writing stories is a kind of magic, too. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 583e0f0 | Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? | feelings women strength tess | Thomas Hardy | |
| 1319006 | I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 14380a5 | I defy you, stars. | William Shakespeare | ||
| c39c9c9 | I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. | kindness | William Shakespeare | |
| b33cf7b | It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. | inspirational | Aristotle | |
| 53cf194 | What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. | inspirational | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |