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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| db61df0 | Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. | life judgement 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 | ||
| eb8cfe2 | Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. | stereotypes feminism women morality empowerment womanhood dignity social-norms misogyny hypocrisy double-standards inequality protectiveness gender | Virginia Woolf | |
| ea1f565 | If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 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 | ||
| 8164c52 | It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too. | life | S.E. Hinton | |
| 096cbcf | Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. | motivation talent | Stephen King | |
| 2ee9ad8 | She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b8b291f | Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 87218e3 | So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. | pain happy happiness life feel taste little strong | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| a075d0b | Just wait until he figures out I shut him out of his slut hut. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 90bf9da | If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the insta.. | nature poetry love | Mary Oliver | |
| 5f64b9b | If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 37af4df | When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. | inspirational | Randy Pausch | |
| bb10357 | Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. | relationships inspirational | Fred Rogers | |
| c20fe94 | And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything. | love vulnerability | Christine Feehan | |
| f350c1f | Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything. | sex men relationships women | Milan Kundera | |
| 1ed4eb8 | I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. | Nick Hornby | ||
| a1a3da3 | I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c310933 | It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| dfde52f | Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither. | christianity religion | C.S. Lewis | |
| 732a0dd | You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness. | young-adult necromancer urban-fantasy | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 08b8fcc | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 12b6cb9 | Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. | philosophy inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| fd84953 | Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 467d706 | The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. | catholicism humility lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d219f8a | Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2fc00f6 | Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. | yann martel pi of | Yann Martel | |
| 02fb7e8 | Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. | youth maturity existentialism | Hermann Hesse | |
| 97b96df | There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. | evil | Tom Stoppard | |
| 4ed2aac | We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4d61558 | What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? | reading | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 784a065 | And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her | princess | Meg Cabot | |
| 936d638 | We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor. | Schopenhauer Arthur | ||
| d066640 | Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it. | David Levithan | ||
| 9a283f6 | To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. | William James | ||
| 565f98e | He wanted to give her another word to say, something like luscious or whisper or strawberry. Hell, antidisestablishmentarianism would do it. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d106f15 | Yes. What is it, guilt, revenge, love, what?" I swallowed. "I live alone." "And your point is?" "You have the Pack. You're surrounded by people who would fall over themselves for the pleasure of your company. I have no one. My parents are dead, my entire family is gone. I have no friends. Except Jim, and that's more of a working relationship than anything else. I have no lover. I can't even have a pet, because I'm not at the house often eno.. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 2cdf709 | I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. | obscurity the-new-yorker | Dorothy Parker | |
| a1dacf2 | I held out a lead figurine of Hades--the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids." "It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed. "Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first." I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while." | nico-diangelo percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 7f8ff80 | Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real h.. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 927405a | All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyeb.. | mankind theatre world poetry humanity life roles stage | William Shakespeare |