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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 187c669 | I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried. | grief feeling-broken | John Green | |
| aa7565a | Reading list (1972 edition)[edit] 1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey 2. The Old Testament 3. Aeschylus - Tragedies 4. Sophocles - Tragedies 5. Herodotus - Histories 6. Euripides - Tragedies 7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War 8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings 9. Aristophanes - Comedies 10. Plato - Dialogues 11. Aristotle - Works 12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus 13. Euclid - Elements 14. Archimedes - Works 15. Apoll.. | list | Mortimer J. Adler | |
| 95364b6 | If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back. | pain hurting | Holly Black | |
| e80946c | Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war! | war | William Shakespeare | |
| 6628aca | Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. | never-lose-hope inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism hope life inspirational adversity potential challenge growth | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 3fdb4c7 | He is half of my soul, as the poets say. | love inspirational | Madeline Miller | |
| f76bd31 | When your will is God's will, you will have your will. | god inspirational | Charles Spurgeon | |
| 8d4366c | We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 6372969 | She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 4c12920 | All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just b.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 54b0c6a | I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 34fc53f | Why am I covered in feathers?" I asked, confused. He exhaled impatiently. "I bit a pillow. Or two..." -- | passion edward-cullen honeymoon | Stephenie Meyer | |
| b699fab | I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8960f8c | Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight. Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calli.. | eating-disorder | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 6e02f16 | I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground. | David Levithan | ||
| 5ae6cc6 | need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that. | David Levithan | ||
| f572bca | Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union wit.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 4d8e6a9 | Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return. | T.H. White | ||
| 647ad44 | It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. | abortion inspirational | Dorothy Parker | |
| d46a1f0 | To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries | religion organized-religion | Richard Dawkins | |
| 4b7ec05 | I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always b.. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 87dd3e8 | Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational choices | Roy T. Bennett | |
| cbff733 | Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. | music inspirational power-of-music christian | Johann Sebastian Bach | |
| 42dfcd2 | I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. | on-writing storytelling | Philip Pullman | |
| 697ba19 | You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 255d17f | Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too. | hemingway | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 2489566 | What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget? | forgiveness | Jodi Picoult | |
| 8951e18 | A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6e1981e | owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do. | dogs sadness | John Grogan | |
| ffbc464 | Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica. | James Patterson | ||
| 4a46e4a | Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. | life goodbyes parting sad | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 62b806e | The beginning is the most important part of the work. | republic plato | Plato | |
| 53c99c2 | If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. | Yann Martel | ||
| d846eda | What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I have about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can yo.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 75cf76c | For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d1cd966 | It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c6de9ea | So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 94e75d7 | the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2301991 | Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she'd never even suspected that it could feel this way. | morganville-vampires sweet | Rachel Caine | |
| 4078c96 | The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and pai.. | Stephen King | ||
| f07b40b | When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost. | Stephen King | ||
| 73e433a | Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| dd3006b | I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind. | sassy | Veronica Roth | |
| 2e637c3 | Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are." "Land mines?" | Rick Riordan |