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2ffd316 the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them destruction Charles Bukowski
45b9d0d Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboard rail, gazing over the bay. Annabeth took his hand. "What are you going to do while we're gone?" "Jump in the harbor," he said casually, like another kid might say, ." hazel-levesque percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians piper-mclean the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena Rick Riordan
91c2a6f Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girls figure- a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars." Rick Riordan
8ddf554 The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way." -- funny humor little-red-riding-hood politics sexist James Finn Garner
54fcd17 If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen. care-enough inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living make-things-happen motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
16cda58 The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. T.. inspirational stardust universe Lawrence M. Krauss
c10dfa1 Love as thou wilt Jacqueline Carey
abaaba4 Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen. Rachel Caine
916bc46 What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? William Golding
91b2624 Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation. Anne Lamott
2aeb5b9 To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity. Maya Angelou
5684a89 how come you're so ugly?" "my life has hardly been pretty -- the hospitals, the jails, the jobs, the women, the drinking. some of my critics claim that i have deliberately inflicted myself with pain. i wish that some of my critics had been along with me for the journey. it's true that i haven't always chosen easy situations but that's a hell of a long ways from saying that i leaped into the oven and locked the door. hangover, the electric n.. Charles Bukowski
a7dbe17 And they all lived happily to the end of their days. pg-824 the-lunar-chronicles winter Marissa Meyer
03cad34 What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? J.K. Rowling
79b129b Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon. Donald Miller
3a7b23d The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. Orson Scott Card
85399f7 You know what they say about boys next door... daemon katy romance Jennifer L. Armentrout
6fa8842 It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer. Sophie Kinsella
a998e6e Rosie, I'm returning to Boston tomorrow but before I go I wanted to write this letter to you. All the thoughts and feelings that have been bubbling up inside me are finally overflowing from this pen and I'm leaving this letter for you so that you don't feel that I'm putting you under any great pressure. I understand that you will need to take your time trying to decide on what I am about to say. I no what's going on, Rosie. You're my best f.. love-rosie where-rainbows-end Cecelia Ahern
0a71095 But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question? Jodi Picoult
23cfd40 The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends. daja fear friends sandry Tamora Pierce
e051a74 I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her. Jonathan Safran Foer
75f8a65 Get smart and nothing can touch you. S.E. Hinton
1d9bdb4 Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. philosophy wisdom Michel de Montaigne
703af81 It doesn't matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do. Robert Fulghum
5f8faae It's harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone's arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts. Robert Fulghum
3600a90 V shook his head. "Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How'd you like that anywhere near a female you loved?" Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage's body. "We're going to need a shitload of steel," the human muttered." humor paranormal rhage romance vampire J.R. Ward
b8a7a36 You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. F. Scott Fitzgerald
e6abc3c Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. F. Scott Fitzgerald
fab34c5 I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. writing Mary Oliver
f6ef080 who wishes to fight must first count the cost strategy war Sun Tzu
9c39b81 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version) bible purity scripture woman Anonymous
ec69311 When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. critical-thinking dogma freedom-of-thought independent-thought inspirational politics religion Anaïs Nin
a7ec2e4 Your head is full of kelp. percy-jackson Rick Riordan
c473b66 Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them macabre Terry Pratchett
5d6abf2 I am no king, and I am no lord ending humor inspirational love lyrics poe Peter S. Beagle
b2611fe There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Jeanette Winterson
8f749d1 People are more than just the way they look. people Madeleine L'Engle
961d6a1 At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the .. speculative-fiction young-adult Madeleine L'Engle
ec27338 The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little. life love Khaled Hosseini
9ecfa3e How do you invent a religion?" Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, 'God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up." Libba Bray
fecb4ee Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again. Max Lucado
88d3b66 Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. Bryan Lee O'Malley
1772927 Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. success Napoleon Hill