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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f409d7e | Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eter.. | Herman Melville | ||
| a3117ca | Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us... | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1ec67d0 | To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. | friends success | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 6ab65bb | Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms. | Markus Zusak | ||
| b806e68 | There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe. | universe stars science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| a222eec | The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| e8d689d | Did you know that she was cyborg?" asked a woman in an unhidden tone of disgust. Kai stared at her, appearing confused, then let his gaze dance over the crowd. He shuffled his feet closer to the podium, a wrinkle forming on the bridge of his nose. Cinder bit the inside of her cheek and braced herself for adamant disgust. Who would ever invite a cyborg to the ball? But instead, Kai said simply, "I don't see that her being cyborg is relevant... | cyborg kai | Marissa Meyer | |
| 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) | fresh-start start-over try-again beginnings new-leaf end | 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.. | poseidon percy-jackson dionysus | 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. | time inspirational | Brian Andreas | |
| fc25850 | Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. | achieve achieving meaning reason reason-to-live sacrifice successful-living inspiration inspire living motivation inspiring motivational success life inspirational achievement purpose-in-life reason-to-breathe lifestyle motivate motivating ambition purpose goals | Criss Jami | |
| 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. | loss life | 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 | ||
| 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 new-moon male-beauty | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 the-last-song nicholas-sparks | 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |