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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b3968be | Innocence is a kind of insanity | innocent insanity | Graham Greene | |
| b2ffe70 | I Choose Love... No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. I Choose Joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God. I Choose Peace... I will live f.. | Max Lucado | ||
| 9a5aa97 | I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door." ( | introvert solitude | J.D. Salinger | |
| 73cca32 | I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 50c4def | But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 08ad1b5 | The area dividing the brain and the soul Is affected in many ways by experience -- Some lose all mind and become soul: insane. Some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. | charles | Charles Bukowski | |
| a855d55 | Our disappointment sits between us. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2b89871 | The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 78f9811 | Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. | nihilism | Joseph Heller | |
| 8432133 | Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 355e287 | We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross. | Francine Rivers | ||
| d6c23d7 | I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me. | threat | Darren Shan | |
| 8247001 | But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was fine and happy and fulfilled on my own without the love of anyone else. Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 85a23dd | You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful." | imagination matilda | Roald Dahl | |
| 13bacba | Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour." Alec looked puzzled. "Who's Madonna?" "Who's the Queen of the Seelie Court?" said Clary. "She is the Queen of Faerie," said Magnus. "Well, the local one, anyway." Jace put his head in his hands. "Tell Isabelle no." "But she thinks it's a good idea," Alec protested. "Then tell .. | jace magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 15aab0c | Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother. | J.R. Ward | ||
| abfaf94 | why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b04395c | I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 7303ba6 | Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 675a27d | When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen" | game-of-thrones | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4f0f37d | Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. | courage fantasy life | Robin Hobb | |
| c3361b9 | Percy," Apollo said, "I wouldn't worry too much. The last Great Prophecy about took almost seventy years to complete. This one may not even happen in your lifetime." I thought about the lines Rachel had spoken in that creepy voice: about storm and fire and the Doors of Death. "Maybe," I said, "but it didn't sound so good." "No," said Apollo cheerfully. "It certainly didn't. She's going to make a wonderful Oracle!" | percy-jackson rachel-elizabeth-dare | Rick Riordan | |
| 72d0939 | You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a6ab13c | Catch that last episode of Doctor Who? Oh, right. You were trudging through the Pit of Eternal Damnation! | Rick Riordan | ||
| fb6caff | We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder. | Holly Black | ||
| 5c91a2c | There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6166706 | It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. | blessings broken-heart compassion inspirational kindness love true-love | Steve Maraboli | |
| 69f4650 | The purpose of life is not to be happy--but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. | inspirational purpose truth | Leo Rosten | |
| 8bdff97 | Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. | strength strength-through-adversity survival | Betty Smith | |
| c52b638 | You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found. | inspirational | Isabel Allende | |
| f8d75a8 | Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 70a87f4 | Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 85dac5b | Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 926da7b | That's it? That's your big goodbye?" Eve asked. Claire looked at Eve mystified. "I think I need guy CliffNotes." "Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffNotes." "What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?" Shane snorted. "I hugged. I'm done." | morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| faff16c | The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. | honesty truth | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 87bd2e9 | Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 87708c1 | This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 70788dc | Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful t.. | stories truth | Albert Camus | |
| d797f3c | He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. | growing-up innocence life loss-of-innocence truths youth | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 5a65e29 | Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen?" Dr.Martinez: "We're cooking." Gazzy: "She's just keeping you company, right?" Dr.Martinez: "No, she's cooking." Nudge: "Cooking...food?" Max: "Yes, I'm cooking food, and it's great, and you're going to eat it, you twerps!" -- | James Patterson | ||
| 5c01ba7 | A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. | friends learning reading reading-books sharing sharing-books | Henry Miller | |
| def59d1 | Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 848b7d2 | Finally there is nothing here for death to take away. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 27caadb | Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty." | science-fiction | Scott Westerfeld |