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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | |
| d96ae8b | To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect | hope love wish expectations | 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 | |
| 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 .. | young-adult speculative-fiction | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 88d3b66 | Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 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 piper lost-hero | 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? | violence interrogation police | Terry Pratchett | |
| 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 | ||
| 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.. | poe humor love inspirational lyrics | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 9b5841f | Feeding a crowd?' the woman behind the counter asked. Yes, ma'am ,' Fang said sweetly. I thought. | James Patterson | ||
| 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.' . . . | tolkien middle-earth frodo lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 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." | strong-heroines chaol crown-of-midnight dorian celaena | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f996492 | You're a girl?" "Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I'm older." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |