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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f684713 | To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| bb35746 | I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. | reunion | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7dad359 | What just happened?" "Your father invited the former love of your life in for pie." "Yeah, that's what I thought." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d8a9c08 | And you're blind?" Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored. Were you born that way?" No." How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened." | humor maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 38934b4 | If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, | inspirational | Dr. Seuss | |
| d3d498a | Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of f.. | seasons poets nature fall walking pleasure | Jane Austen | |
| 2f462a7 | I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are tho.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9416bde | The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 41010ff | It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e0eccf3 | It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair. | tantrums | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| f5af1ec | I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e4c0bd5 | Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 09a2913 | nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself and it will be easy enough to fail so very easily but don't, don't, don't. just watch them. listen to them. do you want to be like that? a faceless, mindless, heartless being? do you want .. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1e126f9 | So I'm all of love that could make it today. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 919e6fa | You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8cb18ad | We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known ... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards we shall come to the center of our own existence. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 895c38a | The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 463f738 | If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day | humor inspirational | Dr. Seuss | |
| 3ff6f0a | The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. | sensibility | George Bernard Shaw | |
| debfb7c | Beauty is the illumination of your soul. | soul | John O'Donohue | |
| e98663d | If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d2bc576 | Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. | integrity moral-courage | Ayn Rand | |
| 473f701 | Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? | personality evil | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| d581d47 | You could rattle the stars. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b0d81a8 | You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance. | life dancing | Gertrude Stein | |
| 7e3b5bc | Beds empty! No note! Car gone -- could have crashed -- out of my mind with worry -- did you care? -- never, as long as I've lived -- you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie or Percy --" "Perfect Percy," muttered Fred. "YOU COULD DO WITH TAKING A LEAF OUT OF PERCY'S BOOK!" yelled Mrs. Weasley, prodding a finger in Fred's chest. "You could have , you could have been , you could have lost you.. | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9c1dd8c | You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes. | literature reading | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 3c1f716 | Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newbor.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 66b4cd8 | I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| f90cbb3 | There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 3a8c9d8 | Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!" This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko's blinding light. "Why would the prince dance with me?" Iko's fan hummed as she sought an answer. "Because you won't have grease on your face this time." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| d5b5958 | In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door.. | life | Neil Gaiman | |
| 290786a | Regrets are illuminations come too late. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 79da13b | In every end, there is also a beginning. | ending | Libba Bray | |
| daca026 | If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| fe8beb1 | What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?" "You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything." | valek yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| fc2fe58 | You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want. | Holly Black | ||
| 5263fb4 | Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. | humor inspirational | Tennessee Williams | |
| 433f90b | Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved. | inspirational | Thomas S. Monson | |
| 5b7549d | The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| fb02f21 | Daemon arched a brow. 'Are you feeling me up, Kat? I'm liking where this is heading. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4155144 | Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. | mind wisdom eternity mystery | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| a825e60 | I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d8034bc | Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around m.. | time writing breaking-down-assignment project-management homework project time-management encouragement writing-advice childhood school | Anne Lamott |