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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e57255 | How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as lon.. | love devotion | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9c5061c | Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. | future past trap yourself | Jodi Picoult | |
| de5816a | I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| bbcce6b | Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| ee266c6 | We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. | Henry James | ||
| c218103 | If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. | Jane Austen | ||
| d97c733 | Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year.. | suicide-attempt | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| a62467b | From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0d9e8a9 | It is said that all people who are happy have God within them. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9062a18 | My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 33b23fc | I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 6e00b96 | It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flin.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| da69239 | A hundred suspicions don't make a proof. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a02866f | Fred and George turned to each other and said together, 'Wow, we're identical!' 'I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking,' said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle. | fred-weasley weasley-twins george-weasley weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 11b5af9 | The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation. | money wealth positive-thinking motivational new-age stephen-richards mind-power worthy self-help | Stephen Richards | |
| b660d1e | Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)--Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world--a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious--surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate.. | literature poetry science instructive credulous fossil mythic spectacle testing untaught primitive superstitious schools fable prose science-vs-religion glorious theology conflict curious democracy | Walt Whitman | |
| 9370ce2 | I mean, I don't know how the world broke. And I don't know if there's a God who can help us fix it. But the fact that the world is broken - I absolutely believe that. Just look around us. Every minute - every single second - there are a million things you could be thinking about. A million things you could be worrying about. Our world - don't you just feel we're becoming more fragmented? I used to think that when I got older, the world woul.. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 1962cac | I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c0a9cf3 | A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. | fiction writing on-fiction stories | Diane Setterfield | |
| aba332b | A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly a wolf. | warg winter-is-coming wolves | George R.R. Martin | |
| 41c9160 | I am the captain of my soul. | inspirational | Nelson Mandela | |
| 89c7467 | The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don't wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months' shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don't really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptom.. | motivations symptoms junkie addicts withdrawal drug-addiction sickness junk | William S. Burroughs | |
| bb2de06 | You've got no sense of humor." "I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4127eb2 | I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. | life write | Dodie Smith | |
| fdb06e9 | There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 060b766 | Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can'.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 823d2f4 | I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 879bd60 | Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ce20e35 | Time will explain. | Jane Austen | ||
| 305514e | After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. | life medical-training palahniuk physicians doctors medicine disease waiting | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 21b4a74 | I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body. | soul | Paulo Coelho | |
| e35a912 | Make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. | John Lennon | ||
| 5c452d6 | We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ec1bf07 | Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. | names inspirational fuck | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1b49ca8 | Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? | empathy judgement | Harper Lee | |
| 3b130bc | I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 35cd40d | My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map. | Rachel Caine | ||
| addb118 | He--that's Simon Bolivar--was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. Damn it," he sighed. "'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!' "So what's the labyrinth?" I asked her. "That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?" | John Green | ||
| 3c64438 | Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to | wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| 812c284 | There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. | the-paris-review wisecracks wit | Dorothy Parker | |
| 2d8021b | Be great in act, as you have been in thought. | William Shakespeare | ||
| da1a8e5 | There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard | music inspirational idic innovation diversity colors problem-solving invention creativity | Sun Tzu | |
| a92ef2c | If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears. | inspirational | Don Miguel Ruiz | |
| ee70f5a | That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. | inspirational | Ralph Waldo Emerson |