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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c1d2e0e | People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e3598b0 | The death of a beloved is an amputation. | death | C.S. Lewis | |
| 44710f0 | You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| d71f2a6 | I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 92b1c7a | Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is. | life inspirational | Henry Miller | |
| 55459f1 | There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 406fe80 | The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 907d8d1 | It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. | fashion | L. M. Montgomery | |
| 031e310 | Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8da3b89 | Fuck this. Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen. | unbelief rant helplessness | David Levithan | |
| 4b60ff8 | You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. | William Blake | ||
| 2ce4b86 | Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin. Aphrodite frowned at him. "I said focus, not flirt." | P.C. Cast | ||
| 29c5193 | If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, | Pablo Neruda | ||
| 5ae749f | Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. | social-commentary science-fiction | Spider Robinson | |
| a3e5c23 | People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it. | learning changing stephen king | Stephen King | |
| be8d387 | No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. | politics music nonfiction | kurt vonnegut | |
| 7b798ef | The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. | voice | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| d611c2a | It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 876e29f | He put the book down. "As you wish." He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he stepped in dangerously close. "Welcome home. I'm glad you made it. There is coffee in the kitchen for you." My mouth gaped open. He inhaled my scent, bent close, about to kiss me... I just stood there like an idiot. Curran smirked and whispered in my ear instead. "Psych." And just like that, he was out the door and gon.. | curran kate flirting princess-bride | Ilona Andrews | |
| 802888f | Keep passing the open windows. | suicide perseverance | John Irving | |
| d6e550b | There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted. | music inspirational idic innovation diversity problem-solving invention creativity | Sun Tzu | |
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| b94e0a7 | Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 37fa890 | What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9ffa32e | Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is s.. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 37e6556 | Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. | love forgiveness pride | Kahlil Gibran | |
| c9b50e1 | Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 114c46c | There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 32d97cc | All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 887ce6e | No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ." "And?" "No damn cat, and no damn cradle." | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 6097eac | Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 38714de | Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?" "Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!" | poseidon percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| b4d0e1e | Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really." , George said. Martha snapped. Hermes ignored them. "One night, when this boy's mother wasn't watching, he sneaked out of their cave and stole some cattle that belonged to Apollo." "Did he get blasted to tiny pieces?" I asked. "Hmm ... no. Actually, everything turned out quite well. To make up for his theft, the boy gave Apollo an instrument he'd inv.. | humor george martha moral rats percy-jackson hermes | Rick Riordan | |
| 33b595c | With great power comes great responsibility. | marvel-comics inspirational stan-lee comics marvel | Stan Lee | |
| 631c7ab | By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream | feminism inspirational | Virginia Woolf | |
| c1e907e | Dream, Dream Drea | inspirational | APJ ABDUL KALAM | |
| af342ba | If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough. | inspirational | Elie Wiesel | |
| 65c0ca4 | Kitten..." "Don't Kitten me." I scowled, on a roll now. "You left around five or so and didn't get back till when? Past two in the morning? What were you guys doing? And get that stupid smile off your face. This isn't funny." Daemon tried to get rid of the smile but failed. "I love when your claws come out." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7fc4a8b | Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a1e2436 | Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. | simile humor | Jodi Picoult | |
| 73a124a | Ian stood above me, his chest heaving with exertion and fury. For a second he turned away and put the door back in place with one swift wrench. And then he was glowering again. I took a deep breath and rolled up onto my knees, holding my hands out, palms up, wishing that some magic would appear in them. Something I could give him, something I could say. But my hands were empty. "You. Are. Not. Leaving. Me." His eyes blazed - burning brighte.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 72d3505 | She's in love with me, too, you know." Edward didn't answer. Jacob sighed. "But she know it." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7c58591 | By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. | rewriting-history | Dan Brown | |
| ea99885 | In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. | Jeffrey Eugenides |