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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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.. | depression poetry suicide | sylvia plath | |
| 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 | |
| 40b3205 | Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. | feeling sincerity women | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 357b81b | Don't you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you've made, every hurt you've received, every bit of meanness you've dealt out? There's no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b9f137d | If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours. | Stephen King | ||
| 0d9fab8 | Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is alwa.. | faith happiness hope life living love misery pain positivity stoicism | T.H. White | |
| a314270 | You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 0a0f76c | There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for. | romance sorry wisdom | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 8350100 | What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap." | guilty humor naps trial | Veronica Roth | |
| 5a49b47 | Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?" -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8470b65 | O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't! | irony wonder | William Shakespeare | |
| 2cf1da4 | There was a star danced, and under that was I born. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4cc5086 | I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me. | destiny freedom happiness humanism inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life life-and-living living spirit stained-glass-window | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 10ac14c | Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. | change inspirational self-confidence self-esteem trying | Tina Fey | |
| fd8244b | When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. | inspirational | Zig Ziglar | |
| c921976 | Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. | inspirational | Joseph Campbell | |
| efaa603 | But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that. | manga moon nana | Ai Yazawa | |
| 07c45ca | Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 52fcb9b | They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it | teachers | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 3d8e0b4 | Lucien had been prepared to take me against my will. Fae males were territorial, dominant, arrogant--but the ones in the Spring Court ... something had festered in their training. Because I knew--deep in my bones--that Cassian might push and test my limits, but the moment I said no, he'd back off. And I knew that if ... that if I had been wasting away and Rhys had done nothing to stop it, Cassian or Azriel would have pulled me out. They wo.. | azriel cassian feyre ianthe lucien rhys rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 48309ff | We see the world, not as it is, but as we are--or, as we are conditioned to see it. | perceptions | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 7377d92 | What's so funny?" Bella mumbled. "I got food in her hair," I told her, chortling again. "I'm not going to forget this, dog," Rosalie hissed. "S'not so hard to erase a blond's memory," I countered. "Just blow in her ear." Get some new jokes, "Rosalie snapped." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ccefc0b | Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. | endgame funny unhappiness-nothing | Samuel Beckett | |
| e3bf4c5 | Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. | perfect-chemistry sierra | Simone Elkeles | |
| 6206360 | Fang! Come Back!" I started pulling his hair. Shaking his head and shoulders. Hard. "Wake up! Snap out of it! You stupid jerk! I am going to kill you if you die on me!" | maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 784100d | Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself. "I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind." | sabriel | Garth Nix | |
| f444865 | As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. | Harper Lee | ||
| 8b609c7 | Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 33a23bb | Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten)." | harry-potter ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| bd5adf1 | I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race--that rarely do I ever simply it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. None of those things, however, came out of m.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| d6fa3c5 | You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face." "My face?" "It's in need of my kisses." | need | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 6052369 | Air punched out of my lungs. I held her tight, and I knew right then I would burn down the whole universe for her if I had to. I would do anything to keep her safe. Kill. Heal. Die. Anything. Because she was my everything. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 9034860 | Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| dd65e89 | I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart. | men tragedy women | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| d2918db | Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!" He honestly thought it mattered." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8f63b16 | Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. | elect king narnia queen | C.S. Lewis | |
| b1a5205 | Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. | old | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 76414b5 | Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. | Stephen King | ||
| 275af76 | Death never comes at the time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief. | Christopher Pike | ||
| bba5e24 | Jesus Christ. . . he was not Omega's son. Was he? "No." V said. "You are not. He just wants to believe you are. And he wants you to think you are. But that doesn't make it true." There was a long silence. Then Rhage's hand landed on Butch's shoulder. "Besides, you don't look a thing like him. I mean. . . hello? You are this beefy Irish white boy. He's like. . . bus exhaust or some shit." Butch glanced over at Hollywood. "You're sick, you kn.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 9878526 | You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting." I try to hide the shudder that goes through me at the word "execution," my shoulder screaming with pain, and look up at Tobias. It's hard to blink tears back when I see the terror in Tobias's wide, dark eyes. "No," says Tobias. His voice trembles, but hi.. | hurt love | Veronica Roth | |
| 4e296f0 | It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads." | asoiaf fantasy grrm | George R.R. Martin | |
| a15cef1 | The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!' 'Valdez who? | humour knock leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 7faffe1 | There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. | books companionship inspirational | Philip Pullman |