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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 05062a9 | Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. | light speed-of-light | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7947b01 | The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9aec8e3 | If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 4a091bd | Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of .. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 07d1ae0 | Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. | inspirational | Rick Riordan | |
| 633fd24 | The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before. | loss memory | John Green | |
| b0e769a | I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? | Tennessee Williams | ||
| add3cf1 | He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very to.. | harry-potter touching | J.K. Rowling | |
| 06adb99 | There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 35469f8 | Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks. | jace-wayland shadowhunters simon | Cassandra Clare | |
| c783a9f | You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0bf8363 | Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e85a89b | He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that re.. | John Green | ||
| ff20050 | I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 489fa2f | Truth only means something when it's hard to admit. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3beb9b3 | I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 27351eb | It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong. | strength | Jon Krakauer | |
| 3f9591b | People come, people go - they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past. | life | Nicholas Sparks | |
| cfa6c4b | I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox. And there's one more - that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green? My leg is cut, my eyes are blue, It might be the instamatic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke.. | poem funny | Shel Silverstein | |
| 512e1b3 | Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. | war life | Sun Tzu | |
| 5e69b9b | When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6451914 | All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. | family life inspirational parents | Mitch Albom | |
| 6ee7a3d | Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!" | magic music power-of-music | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1730314 | Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c2ab59f | Have you really read all those books in your room?" Alaska laughing- "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read." | library reading | John Green | |
| cf0f6f2 | What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? | inspirational | George Eliot | |
| bffe041 | Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. | acts-of-kindness opportunity kindness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational smile | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 5c9ac26 | Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| 3525442 | I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. | october thankfulness | L. M. Montgomery | |
| 10de15f | By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. | macbeth | William Shakespeare | |
| 56b4939 | What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul." -- | soul | Cassandra Clare | |
| 382945b | People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose." | responsibility love | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 668321c | It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. | John Updike | ||
| bd3ace2 | There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 9df0084 | Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that are gods. | dogs religion god shelter atheism cats water food pets | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 8794dcb | The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. | inspiration love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| eb07af8 | Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you tou.. | legacy | Ray Bradbury | |
| 23abf48 | Time is the longest distance between two places. | time | Tennessee Williams | |
| b3e4ff4 | Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 00ef06f | Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 3e31966 | There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. | inspirational | Adrienne Rich | |
| ca88e57 | Tears are words that need to be written. | writing sadness inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| da2bad7 | This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 1bad3b9 | Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?" | jace | Cassandra Clare |