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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a671aa6 | I prefer to be left alone with my books. | solitude jane-grey | Alison Weir | |
| d71be09 | I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were. | love | Haruki Murakami | |
| 9be7da4 | I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 00ea91d | That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cee62a1 | Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness. | life laziness | Albert Camus | |
| add000f | I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. | Albert Camus | ||
| 41697c2 | One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. | Jane Austen | ||
| 3ba770b | The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: | science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 98724b6 | When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 60ad2ea | In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. | words lies library reading people | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 64a957c | Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham. | betrayal | Agatha Christie | |
| 979a190 | There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible. | Harper Lee | ||
| 2acefe2 | purple does something strange to me | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1f2c0a8 | Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?" Her stomach twisted. "No." She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn't had the gift before? That she couldn't have used it against him? "I would never lie--" The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. "I'm so sorry," she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening.. | love cinder marissa-meyer prince-kai betrayal | Marissa Meyer | |
| 1cd195a | The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and t.. | understanding love subjective objective objectivity narcissism understanding-oneself-and-others humility narcissistic selfishness psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| c24997b | O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red | Walt Whitman | ||
| 3052ecf | Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| a3f9cf1 | It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 4fab812 | If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't. | Stephen King | ||
| 6d7fb77 | Thanks for putting me up for it ... ." As V's eyes flared, Butch said, "Yeah, I looked up what the word meant. 'Beloved Friend' fits you perfect as far as I'm concerned." V Flushed. Cleared his throat. "Good Deal, cop. Good... deal." | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 2149027 | I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends. | John Green | ||
| 9e9e133 | His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 6d6be90 | An is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo! | errands incendiary-poo pyromaniac-gorillas | Jim Butcher | |
| 22943cd | Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 65ba401 | Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new. | letting-go inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 9582da5 | Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing. | spirit beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living destiny happiness life truth inspirational belief-quotes life-experience belief beautiful | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 0fed28f | The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. | life inspirational enjoy-life carpe-diem | Marjorie Pay Hinckley | |
| ae3b88e | The most exquisite paradox... as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. | inspirational spiritual-wisdom | ram dass | |
| 286a056 | Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest w.. | woman | James Joyce | |
| 1cad6e7 | LADY LAZARUS I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it-- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?-- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And li.. | suicide depression poetry | sylvia plath | |
| 7c4e7f3 | Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. | love unearned-blessings holy worthy | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 3c9702b | Romeo wouldn't change his mind. That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 94bf3f6 | Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 5cf918b | What really matters is what you believe. | Dan Brown | ||
| cfec2b1 | down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor--by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. "He will take no m.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3db04b6 | Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved? | Jack Kerouac | ||
| caf4456 | I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist. | hate | Graham Greene | |
| ef8c828 | It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 2da1ae0 | And because she was young, and so damn clever and amusing and wonderful, wherever she made her home, there would be some man who would fall in love with her and who would make her his wife, and would be the worst truth of all. It had snuck up on him, this pain and terror and rage at the thought of anyone else with her. Every look, every word from her... he didn't even know when it had started. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 58d5f6a | She watched him, her head angled. He sometimes felt that she looked at him the way a cat regards a mouse. He just wondered how long it would take for her to pounce. | chaol-westfall | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f1ee981 | I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| d2ad788 | Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 040ca41 | I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF! | harry-potter magic humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 43e905d | You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something! | William Goldman |