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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | inspirational life | Henry Miller | |
| 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. | helplessness rant unbelief | David Levithan | |
| 4b60ff8 | You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. | William Blake | ||
| 2262449 | A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. | existentialism future hopelessness | Philip K. Dick | |
| 682d68a | And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more.. | Donald Miller | ||
| 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 | ||
| b760b6b | Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 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 | |
| 55459f1 | There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 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. | science-fiction social-commentary | 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. | changing king learning stephen | 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. | music nonfiction politics | 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 flirting kate princess-bride | Ilona Andrews | |
| 802888f | Keep passing the open windows. | perseverance suicide | 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. | creativity diversity idic innovation inspirational invention music problem-solving | Sun Tzu | |
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| 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. | forgiveness love 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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!" | percy-jackson poseidon | 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.. | george hermes humor martha moral percy-jackson rats | Rick Riordan | |
| 33b595c | With great power comes great responsibility. | comics inspirational marvel marvel-comics stan-lee | 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 | |
| eb8cfe2 | Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. | dignity double-standards empowerment feminism gender hypocrisy inequality misogyny morality protectiveness social-norms stereotypes womanhood women | Virginia Woolf | |
| db61df0 | Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. | judgement life old-age | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 2b0c2cc | How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c5483e8 | Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 6fdee3e | Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real. | vampires | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 042e84f | The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. | José Saramago | ||
| 7c58591 | By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. | rewriting-history | Dan Brown |