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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a945455 | So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?" The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman. "Set animal is too hard to say," I decided. "I'll call you Leroy." Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c831ccf | Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. | immortality pirates | Terry Pratchett | |
| 82f5685 | There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 70dd7fe | Daemon spoke in his language. The lyrical quality of his words made no sense to me. "What did you say?" I asked. "There's really no translation for it," he said, "but the closest human words would be, you are beautiful to me." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0200c8d | Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 61ea4f7 | Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7dc4885 | The lovely flowers embarrass me. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 5d6bf6f | It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. | Anne Rice | ||
| d880b6d | If only my heart were stone. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 5396ba6 | I look down at our knees, slightly touching. Jeans against jeans. Does she notice the heat transferring from her body to mine? Does she even realize what she's doing to me? I know, I know. I'm not a virgin and the slightest touch of a girl's knee is driving me insane. I don't even know what I'm feeling for Maggie, I just know that I'm . It's something I've tried to avoid and deny until yesterday, when I held her in my arms while her tears .. | romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 4512c64 | Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. | writing word-choice | Lewis Carroll | |
| 0b2d193 | I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightni.. | marriage love souls | Emily Brontë | |
| 4b9bd64 | He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. | wanderlust | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 1b41f4e | The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. | growth soul | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 4fab0db | Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 642477d | Once upon a time, in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom ... | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1bddea7 | But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 33834c1 | You're a human, you should understand self-obsession. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f345374 | We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others- some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men. But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a.. | Harper Lee | ||
| 7619020 | if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth | so-you-want-to-be-a-writer | Charles Bukowski | |
| d79e3af | Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 004cc0a | She has become an expert at confusing with with with . | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3ad3ee3 | If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| e9a50d8 | And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract. | John Green | ||
| d0b7ae5 | Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2e4db0c | A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins. | winter tale | William Shakespeare | |
| 72dac11 | I was born into Bolivar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. | inspirational | John Green | |
| 44b3e89 | When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true | musician confidence wisdom inspirational dreaming | Michael Jackson | |
| 775ce49 | Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c3eabee | Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. | poetry | Emily Dickinson | |
| b9abd44 | But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man. | humanism genuine | Albert Camus | |
| 2141357 | Sorry to be your second choice." "Don't be stupid. Third choice. Mum's asleep, remember?" He laughs again." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6e4d56b | Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hund.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 72661e0 | Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow... | louisa-may-alcott sunshine shadow | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 1b605e7 | Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. | inspirational | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 37f0c18 | You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone. | lazy | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 0294b33 | Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2695792 | gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f6be961 | Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e5f5cd1 | IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. | fears reality-of-life | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 7e44a86 | The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 67dbdd0 | Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right." | suicide sadness | Ned Vizzini | |
| 9aa6a95 | I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back." "You're kidding, right?" He shrugged. "You have no proof either." She squinted back at him. "Were you planning on giving it back?" "Maybe." An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder's vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie." | humor thorne | Marissa Meyer | |
| 9e706d4 | You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you. | Mark Z. Danielewski |