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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0825a31 | When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced. | ideas impact readers reading | Salman Rushdie | |
| bf991a1 | Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. H.. | don godfather mario michael puzo | Mario Puzo | |
| 1f83763 | If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. | poverty social-institutions society | Charles Darwin | |
| 8748292 | What do you mean? Is she in a coma?" "Not anymore." She braced herself for his reaction. "But she's a cyborg." His eyes widened, but then his attention was darting around the room as though he couldn't look at Cinder while he adjusted to that information. "I see," he said slowly, before meeting her gaze again. "But ... is she all right?" The question caught her by surprise and she couldn't help a startled laugh. "Oh, yeah, she's great. I .. | kai | Marissa Meyer | |
| 8288732 | See that eye roll? It translates to, 'How am I possibly keeping my hands off of you, Captain? | Marissa Meyer | ||
| bb13cf9 | Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8127cc5 | I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| a8e4bd5 | Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her f.. | harry-potter hermione-granger love order-of-the-phoenix ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2fb6728 | No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. | repentance sin temptation | George Eliot | |
| ca1e493 | The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. | mercy | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 03ba17f | You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long. | Robert Jordan | ||
| d65765b | Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b0a0654 | Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say. | William Faulkner | ||
| 72b01b0 | Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 03dbf3e | I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. | writing writing-life | Stephen King | |
| b760b11 | While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.. | brownies eating esther food incredibly-disgusting jar mark-of-athena peach-preserves story-telling | Rick Riordan | |
| 3700463 | We've arrived," Leo announced. "Time to Split." Frank groaned. "Can we leave Valdez in Croatia?" | leo-valdez pun | Rick Riordan | |
| b609d1a | Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another, | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b6878a6 | Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men. | sexism | Terry Pratchett | |
| 051b941 | The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of.. | inspirational writing | Robin Hobb | |
| 28f0d43 | Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you're willing to be. | happyquotes hope inspirational inspirationalquotes inspired instadaily instaquote lovequotes pinquotes poems poetry quote quoteoftheday quotes relationships rmdrake sadquotes sayings spokenword tattoo typewriter vsco writer writing | robert m drake | |
| ced99b1 | If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 111476c | for my greatest skill has been to want but little. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0d55cad | If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. | friendship honour inspirational | E.M. Forster | |
| 3e1aa98 | Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. | inspiration | Isabel Allende | |
| 7e97ba3 | I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion. But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many peop.. | love relationships | Mitch Albom | |
| 62f2bab | But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1ba4165 | Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty. | acowar rhys rhysand sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8759fd9 | Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did." | Jane Austen | ||
| 28e4acd | The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. | heroism | Umberto Eco | |
| 5e0dbd6 | To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may.. | craving foreshadowing lack longing loss need shadow wholeness wish | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 88534c6 | What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? - The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 7d78d07 | Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose. | hermione-granger rita-skeeter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8170222 | If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ab13700 | An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space. | passion time | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 46d1b8a | Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2edf82c | There was a pause, then his lips stretched into a smile. "You're right." Hell froze over. Pigs were flying. "Come again?" "You're right. I should have checked in at some point. I'm sorry." The world was flat. I didn't know what to say. According to Daemon, he was right about 99 percent of the time. Wow." | daemon katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| d3aa175 | Have you heard of the illness ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra. Day after day you plow your fields. As far as the eye can see, nothing. To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon, to the south, to the west, more of the same. Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields. When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch. When it sinks in the we.. | arctic emptiness farmer hysteria-siberiana madness siberia | Haruki Murakami | |
| 84be28a | Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7f6547b | You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6c4d81e | Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? | James Joyce | ||
| 63761e0 | I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. ...I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life -- namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowa.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| a83f15e | When you're dodging, you're "afraid of getting hit." When you're attacking, you're "afraid of hitting me." When you're protecting someone, you're "afraid of them dying." It's pathetic! You can't give into fear in a fight! When you're dodging, think "I won't let you hit me!" When you're protecting someone, think "I won't let you die!" When you're attacking, think "I will cut you!" --Urahara Kisuke" | kisuke urahara | Tite Kubo | |
| a6bde2e | Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions. | Stephen King |