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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c810530 | That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. | life these-are-words life-changing-events | Charles Dickens | |
| c333f01 | People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. | religion fundamentalism fanaticism evil | Umberto Eco | |
| 498e7da | What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not .. | Max Lucado | ||
| 6254357 | Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me. | madness time | Susanna Clarke | |
| 8bc0c48 | You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,' Ron mumbled. 'Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,' said Harry. 'I've been trying to tell you that for years.' Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron's jacket. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6150cd8 | She's as nutty as squirrel poo. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 962b3e8 | I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream. | David Levithan | ||
| 581b91c | love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| d150455 | Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth. | kindness | Doris Lessing | |
| 7462826 | She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball. | marissa-meyer cinderella | Marissa Meyer | |
| af13cf2 | If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life. | life | Bill Watterson | |
| aeb32ec | The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8ec1b19 | She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 7814c78 | Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. | writing imitation originality maturity plagiarism | T.S. Eliot | |
| 8c7cb7f | You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c6f7174 | You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you," he said." | John Green | ||
| 949dff2 | I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience. | John Green | ||
| cfa28df | Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 32fefae | We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's ma.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 5e37eed | And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. | people sin | Terry Pratchett | |
| 726e022 | It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything. | inspirational | Nick Vujicic | |
| af97171 | The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. | literature inspirational ink blood | T.S. Eliot | |
| 99fd141 | It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. | reality real movies | anthony burgess | |
| 19df86f | We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. | progress | H.G. Wells | |
| 31ccbc6 | Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. | time love museum space nostalgia | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 2db2ef5 | Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying. | Milan Kundera | ||
| ee7eac6 | The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. The more indifferent people are to politics, to the interests of others, the more obsessed they become with their own faces. The individualism of our time. Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move: the marital bed. If high culture is coming to an end, it is also the end of you and your paradoxical ideas, because paradox as su.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| cad8c92 | But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John .. | relationships | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 196b865 | I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence." | doubt | Arthur Golden | |
| 0488685 | They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. | Jane Austen | ||
| 8757249 | A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. | Jane Austen | ||
| 471acbe | Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 75b4355 | But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. | confession alcoholism | Truman Capote | |
| e618483 | Are you married?" "No." She picked at her nails. "I'm not married, either." | chaol-westfall | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 614bf86 | Do you know why the big brother is born first? It's to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I'll kill you"... You never, ever say something like that." | Tite Kubo | ||
| 122c537 | We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought. | cognition senses sociality community communication speech thought | Oliver Sacks | |
| 9da1f37 | Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. | faith parental-love parents child parenthood | Richard Dawkins | |
| b283446 | Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. | passion | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f077d49 | And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| b6459b3 | Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. | religion saints devils | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a9e5088 | I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you." | sex sweet-talk | David Levithan | |
| 2295449 | An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was seeing. "It has long legs and horns and...and it's beautiful." "Oh, good, we're back to this, then." | thorne | marissa meyer | |
| 3be9c0c | People aren't always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can't just meet someone and expect them to be everything you're looking for and then be angry when they're not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It's foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be bett.. | realization second-chances | Chloe Rattray | |
| e050000 | I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you. | Jonathan Safran Foer |