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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d96ae8b | To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect | expectations hope love wish | Jane Austen | |
| 5113ffd | Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. | psychology | Douglas Adams | |
| 6e2bc00 | It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and c.. | creativity inspiration literature reading storytelling writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 66f7d5d | I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the b.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1882975 | When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| e89121d | I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| d65f0c9 | But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 047833e | Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4c7e3cf | I'm just another stupid human. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 995d1ae | Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that . Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c1a70c5 | Kat." He uttered my name like it was some kind of prayer, and then he pressed a kiss against the skin behind my ear. "I broke every rule of my kind to heal you and keep you with me. I ... burned down an entire city to keep you safe. I've for you. Did you think I'd forget what you mean to me? That anything in this world-- in any world-- would be stronger than my love for you?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 672631a | She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they'd loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can.. | loss love lovers | Margaret Atwood | |
| 2858458 | There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations | happiness reality | Jodi Picoult | |
| 27f44cb | If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most thi.. | stars | Jodi Picoult | |
| 546b6ff | Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the.. | infidelity longing touch | Wallace Stegner | |
| 8f9a2db | Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. | love | C.S. Lewis | |
| 85e9dfe | It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 27537a2 | He scooped me up and suddenly I was pressed against his chest. "Were you worried about me?" "No, I'm ranting for fun, because I'm a disagreeable bitch!" | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6afef91 | Grover Underwood of the satyrs!" Dionysus called. Grover came forward nervously. "Oh, stop chewing your shirt," Dionysus chided. "Honestly, I'm not going to blast you. For your bravery and sacrifice, blah, blah, blah, and since we have an unfortunate vacancy, the gods have seen fit to name you a member of the Council of Cloven Elders." Grover collapsed on the spot. "Oh, wonderful," Dionysus sighed, as several naiads came forward to help Gro.. | grover-underwood percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 077ac9f | Shut up, me," Leo said aloud. "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool." Sitting in front, Leo couldn't see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. "Just joking." Leo decided it might be good to change the subject." | leo lost-hero piper | Rick Riordan | |
| 424212b | I commend my soul to any god that can find it. | moist-von-lipwig | Terry Pratchett | |
| ff113bc | I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth? | interrogation police violence | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8da5cbc | Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle? " Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them." | celaena chaol crown-of-midnight dorian strong-heroines | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f996492 | You're a girl?" "Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I'm older." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5b0d876 | It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a444089 | That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0282fbc | I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| eaf3341 | He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.' . . . | frodo lord-of-the-rings middle-earth tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 264056b | I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstro.. | humor inspirational love lyrics poe | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 9b5841f | Feeding a crowd?' the woman behind the counter asked. Yes, ma'am ,' Fang said sweetly. I thought. | James Patterson | ||
| 389356e | animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along | heaven hell | Charles Bukowski | |
| d49547c | Are you becoming what you've always hated? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| c75f6ed | stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6f9b76e | It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 178dc51 | But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy'll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway." "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?" "Throw it away and punch him on the nose," Ron suggested." | wizards | J.K. Rowling | |
| 35d4c4e | Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. | fathers | Markus Zusak | |
| eb73bef | Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 46c90da | Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think. | Robert Greene | ||
| 888fffc | An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what .. | learning-from-enemies learning-from-others mazer-rackham | Orson Scott Card | |
| b4724f3 | You're perfect for me,' I whispered in my own language. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b088951 | Better to have one woman on your side than ten men. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 5ebc551 | Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 24c705b | In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes. | once-upon-a-time | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 1524e41 | Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick." -- | Tamora Pierce |