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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9192df3 | To laugh is to live profoundly. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f1ac00a | Beyond the edge of the world there's a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard. | edge emptiness loop signs space substance world | Haruki Murakami | |
| 787ea89 | Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 31091ff | If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1240f9f | Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9ce293a | All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 195bb6c | Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing... And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet .. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 30cafe9 | But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fd519cd | Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8004bed | Maturity...is knowing what your limitations are...Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 3ce3e0f | I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March) | beginnings end fresh-start new-leaf start-over try-again | Louisa May Alcott | |
| a0248b9 | If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with a lot of trouble. But Chiron seems to feel this would be against my mission at this cursed camp: to keep you little brats safe from harm." "Spontaneous combustion is a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. "Nonsense," Dionysus said. "Boy wouldn't feel a thing. Nevertheless, I've agreed to restrain myself. I'm thinking o.. | dionysus percy-jackson poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| b3c16c7 | You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. | maps | Terry Pratchett | |
| a9893f5 | Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life. | inspirational time | Brian Andreas | |
| fc25850 | Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. | achieve achievement achieving ambition goals inspiration inspirational inspire inspiring life lifestyle living meaning motivate motivating motivation motivational purpose purpose-in-life reason reason-to-breathe reason-to-live sacrifice success successful-living | Criss Jami | |
| 9ae2785 | Being poor is only romantic in books. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 26fe193 | I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7e79879 | The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever | Anne Frank | ||
| e7000c1 | I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 132baf8 | When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made. | love | E.M. Forster | |
| 66b2ed6 | There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find. | marriage nicholas-sparks the-last-song | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 163ec44 | God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6b9a0b9 | You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. | fiction new-adult | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8ebc38d | Nor had she missed when they zigzagged between levels, even though the building was a standard grid of hallways and stairwells. As if she'd lose her bearings that easily. She might have been insulted if he wasn't trying so hard. | throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9e5af99 | To escape death, she'd become death. | escape | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0ef380c | I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never. | James Frey | ||
| 391041c | I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| bb000bc | Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know. | old-wives-tales | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 1726b8a | I feel guilty for being a member of the human race. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 155a7e1 | His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?" Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way. But Jacob rolled his eyes. "You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" "I'm serious." Well, then, thanks. Sort of." I grinned. "You're sort of .. | bella-swan jacob-black male-beauty new-moon | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 439c25c | Why is a raven like a writing desk? | raven | Lewis Carroll | |
| 92c337b | When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. | Oprah Winfrey | ||
| a091923 | You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 67ca63b | You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking. | David Levithan | ||
| cd5ddc9 | when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| c50abcf | Having a brain hurt so much sometimes. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| cf7bedb | Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 4e69e72 | Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e9b679e | Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. | life loss | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1203176 | Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. | suffering | Dodie Smith | |
| f4b4aab | All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f1dd04c | I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves. | humanity | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 76c7066 | There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 2852d2b | There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore. | the-brothers-karamazov | Kurt Vonnegut |