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cd4bcb9 | Well I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever is an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows, "I knew it," he said, "you want to kiss me, don't you?" Simon threw his hands up in exasperation. "Of course not but if-" "I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no in.. | jace-wayland simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
f5504d7 | Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die. | depressing peter-van-houten the-fault-in-our-stars sad | John Green | |
0bb3abe | It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do. | grief loss love tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
2f441cf | She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard. | romance percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
022c428 | You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
afcab89 | There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt. | Jim Butcher | ||
ccf30d6 | I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian. | religion inspirational christian-behavior organized-religion | Mahatma Gandhi | |
5e9e373 | The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today | leading-by-example inspirational | St. Francis Of Assisi | |
1421600 | Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why? | science inspirational | Bernard M. Baruch | |
3eabfe8 | What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? | kids inspirational thoughts-on-life bullying | Lynette Mather | |
35f081a | BURR | inspirational musicals hamilton | Lin-Manuel Miranda | |
8d173b6 | Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think, 'Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore. The 'hurt' part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself. | Haruki Murakami | ||
050a7a4 | I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
09865fd | Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it. | Sylvia Plath | ||
fe3e77f | If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain. | Arthur Golden | ||
6754385 | The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch? | hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy lunch | Douglas Adams | |
fb3d133 | Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
4cb077e | Ignorance is the parent of fear. | fear ignorance | Herman Melville | |
0c9d4e9 | I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. | Yann Martel | ||
caddddb | There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. | Colleen McCullough | ||
86663a3 | I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may! | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
955ffa0 | Where is Aelin. Where is my wife? | love rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
f9dcbbd | If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch, Could I join two hearts as well? | earth rain quote love orihime-inoue sky hearts manga | Tite Kubo | |
2ef9b81 | Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. | the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
7cd34f8 | And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next. | Donna Tartt | ||
0be7cc4 | Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of .. | imagination life inspirational | Betty Smith | |
83a3699 | Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case. | children | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
3adaae2 | Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library." | harry-potter humor ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
153990e | I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to part.. | happiness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
db19a66 | it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him. | Charles Bukowski | ||
d9e877b | Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past | Emily Giffin | ||
a563395 | I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology. | Marissa Meyer | ||
6abf706 | You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering." | Rachel Caine | ||
319bf96 | What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. | skepticism | Christopher Hitchens | |
942e6f7 | Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely. | Toni Morrison | ||
a8ded2a | There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. | words literature reading | Marcel Proust | |
849be5a | Everything is nothing, with a twist. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
eabeca2 | The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. | new-york-city | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
3670150 | They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' "Did you see that?" Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. "Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend." "Annabeth," Frank said. "You mean, on your wa.. | titans-curse son-of-neptune rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
dea5e49 | The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car. Up until then I was having a great afternoon.Technically I wasn't supposed to be driving because I wouldn't turn sixteen for another week, but my mom and my stepdad, Paul, took my friend Rachel and me to the private stretch of beach on the South Shore, and Paul let us borrow his Prius for a short spin. Now, I know what your thinking, but Paul knows me pretty well. .. | Rick Riordan | ||
885afbc | To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. | meaning life wisdom inspirational | Bill Watterson | |
505ad56 | Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. | action time inspirational | Napoleon Hill | |
7c47ec2 | I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..." | lovely | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
16c2eae | A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags... | Sophie Kinsella |