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a21b73f Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. Charles Bukowski
7fe5a02 Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E.L. Doctorow
ba12848 I'm not better, you know. The weight hasn't left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron's, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it's not an option now. It'.. Ned Vizzini
d06bf00 Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love. love Margaret Atwood
417ebbd No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself. Haruki Murakami
51c65e8 As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. inspirational life Haruki Murakami
69feef2 D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it." Diana Gabaldon
8b8cb45 No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. Gabriel García Márquez
928775e Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them. humor Neil Gaiman
43d80e2 We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions. Neil Gaiman
057dba5 The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Carl Sagan
d388fe5 If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight" -- Jennifer Crusie
dff7aac Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. destruction flawed human-character human-nature Kurt Vonnegut
89facba I'm not sure what I'll do, but-- well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. F. Scott Fitzgerald
8779875 But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. divergent myself Veronica Roth
ab30e1f I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. What an idiot, I think, but my heart isn't in it. "That's ridiculous," he says. "That doesn't make any sense. He's eighteen; he'll find another girlfriend once you're dead. And he's stupid if he doesn't know that." Tears run down my cheeks, hot.. Veronica Roth
75e7c82 My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit. tyrion-lannister George R.R. Martin
ddb48e5 You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)" morganville-vampires Rachel Caine
a88b7a6 The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. Douglas Adams
acb772d I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed. Douglas Adams
a6ae7e8 This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. time J.R.R. Tolkien
fff8c48 Pain or love or danger makes you real again.... Jack Kerouac
a1f36cc I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love." deciet hate interview-with-the-vampire lestat lie lies love lovers lying secret secrets truth vampire vampires Anne Rice
9c8d58b I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown Charles Bukowski
8722170 I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood Scott Westerfeld
8ab5dbb I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. Eoin Colfer
2cf841e I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with. hagrid inspirational J.K. Rowling
3ee154f And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. George Eliot
a33a5db As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. wine Ernest Hemingway
5abce9f I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution. Ernest Hemingway
ce66e70 There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth. Jodi Picoult
ecf00e0 It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from. C.S. Lewis
18be061 Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Pablo Neruda
656f9e3 If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! madness H.P. Lovecraft
ea76a2c Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair. hopelessness inspirational life love Ann Brashares
080871d Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. inspirational life time Colleen Hoover
d26013c You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. Norton Juster
b387443 What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it. mother son Nicholas Sparks
c1ac2a4 What in hell is that?" She kept going toward the bathroom, refusing to apologize or look down at the pink, delicate, very short lace nightgown. When she emerged, face washed and clean, Rowan was sitting up, arms crossed over his bare chest. "You forgot the bottom part." She merely blew out the candles in the room one by one. His eyes tracked her the entire time. "There is no bottom part," she said, flinging back the covers on her side. "It'.. celeana-sardothien queen-of-shadows rowan-whitethorn sarah-j-maas Sarah J. Maas
4422cf8 Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. opening-lines Charles Dickens
1e5e9fa It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are. Jean-Paul Sartre
3d9b232 Oh, for God's sake. Save your piss. Don't save your piss. It's all the same to me. Kelley Armstrong
31f4d16 This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad. James Patterson
0f691c0 We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon. Eoin Colfer