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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
ea14601 | Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly." | Milan Kundera | ||
95a62e4 | I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
c3fab14 | I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. | humor | Albert Camus | |
9d69de6 | Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done." | rage edward-cullen twilight-saga threat | Stephenie Meyer | |
53653d7 | I think about you. But I don't say it anymore. | lost-love | Marguerite Duras | |
e0a6d9b | So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is--other people!" | people | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
92b545d | Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
5ba3ca0 | People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
990fb8f | To love is to lose control. | Paulo Coelho | ||
79b3514 | You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes. | J.D. Salinger | ||
6e8967a | May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars | Bob Dylan | ||
f10e495 | His debtors always assumed he'd demand their firstborn. Like I'm fucking Rumpelstiltskin? What would Lothaire do with countless squalling babes? Raise them in a kennel? | vampire paranormal-romance | Kresley Cole | |
ff3a6b9 | Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. | Norton Juster | ||
172161d | They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. | relationships women | James Salter | |
d23ec89 | Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? | life | Markus Zusak | |
353ad10 | Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
b629834 | Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
45afd0c | Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you . They'll put off the moment of murder like another .. | samuel-vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
6b8423f | Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go. | death friendship life love inspirational wwii-fiction tear-jerker holocaust | John Boyne | |
0596f1b | Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. | inspirational | Benjamin Franklin | |
155fc4e | Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. | hope inspirational advice encouragement | Alfred Lord Tennyson | |
3258cd4 | That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. | inspirational sky | Jandy Nelson | |
df329b3 | Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. | Italo Calvino | ||
e102a2a | Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. | Haruki Murakami | ||
8bcdbf4 | She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted. | comfort death life inspirational nice | Cecelia Ahern | |
900ed76 | Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! | C.S. Lewis | ||
36fe18c | I am [in your world].' said Aslan. 'But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there. | C.S. Lewis | ||
c5a1e00 | Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. | Albert Camus | ||
3801e36 | Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
28d00da | Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. | Arthur Golden | ||
6c48bf4 | The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. | drinking humor | Douglas Adams | |
75b5800 | You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it. | runner tourist | Khaled Hosseini | |
0e7d19e | Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either." -- | richard | Donna Tartt | |
1bab682 | Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters! | Anne Frank | ||
bc8cd0b | This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
b96629b | People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy. | James Baldwin | ||
9ee75db | Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, .. | criticism religion truth | Charlotte Brontë | |
c2f2691 | From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in. | Bill Watterson | ||
568585a | The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
7d50245 | Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive. | sookie-eric | Charlaine Harris | |
bd026fe | To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. | life truth spiritual-development soul | Oscar Wilde | |
fa23f50 | We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. Pe.. | heroism the-fault-in-our-stars depth hero intimacy | John Green | |
578e209 | His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. | tris-prior allegiant-quotes veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
8332b30 | I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....) He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you." | family love tobias-and-tris insurgent tobias-eaton four veronica-roth | Veronica Roth |