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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8fc0c30 | I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c54b988 | I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally. | hate sensitive | David Sedaris | |
| 6c1e688 | Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans | John Steinbeck | ||
| e5ccb71 | I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 6661c3e | Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. | Herman Melville | ||
| 5d1e5a7 | He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said." | derek | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 869e446 | She sighed, annoyed at her restlessness. "So," she said, disrupting Wolf in another backward glance. "Who would win in a fight--you or a pack of wolves?" He frowned at her, all seriousness. "Depends," he said, slowly, like he was trying to figure out her motive for asking. "How big is the pack?" "I don't know, what's normal? Six?" "I could win against six," he said. "Any more than that and it could be a close call." Scarlet smirked. "You're.. | fights humor pack | Marissa Meyer | |
| 40284c5 | Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? | Bill Watterson | ||
| 016ff9a | The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. | magistrate organized-religion roman-empire rome useful worship | Edward Gibbon | |
| 87e68fe | I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a .. | love | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 95cbfc7 | I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d25a5a1 | Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. | James Joyce | ||
| 075083b | To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 96d94bc | If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 37be770 | They never see me coming. Know why? Because I'm already there. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 011c7c0 | If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 19b9154 | I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. | John Green | ||
| c83ec99 | It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it .. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 4868d7a | Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2d72acd | Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself"." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2192d39 | It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth. | diary drugs go-ask-alice heroin marijuana pot | Beatrice Sparks | |
| 078562f | Everything stinks till it's finished. | humor inspirational | Dr. Seuss | |
| 8f02eb4 | I've gotta get out of the basement. I've gotta see the world. I've gotta make a difference | inspirational | Gerard Way | |
| d65022c | Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. | inspirational | James Baldwin | |
| d9a0f2d | Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. | abyss facts humble inspirational learning nature open-minded peace peace-of-mind preconceptions preparation risk science | Thomas Huxley | |
| a444b4f | Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation. | albert-einstein einstein inspirational loner | Albert Einstein | |
| ac7b1fe | Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads. "Soul-mate wanted". It doesn't mean too much now. But soul mates- think about it. When your soul-whatever that is anyway-something so alive when you make music or love and so mysteriously hidden most of the rest of the time, so colorful and big but without color or shape-when your soul finds another soul it can recognize even before the rest of you knows about it. The .. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| ab0497a | She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrif.. | loss love sadness | Nicole Krauss | |
| 6919f94 | Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 576b510 | Never be ashamed,' he said. 'Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.' 'How will I know which is which?' 'By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| b1b59e2 | A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d14914c | Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. | Richard Bach | ||
| b6c31df | You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me." | early-onset-alzheimer-s mother-daughter women | Lisa Genova | |
| 196ab5d | Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| de04826 | I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. | pride-and-prejudice | Jane Austen | |
| dc13304 | He who controls the spice controls the universe. | spice | Frank Herbert | |
| 9383be1 | Oof," he says. "Hey, there's a bed there." "Thanks for the warning." "No problem." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 3145d03 | Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things. | James Patterson | ||
| fc56859 | And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart. | relationships women | Henry Miller | |
| a093769 | I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti | gourmand | Thomas Harris | |
| 2a4e0d9 | If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it." | marissa-meyer thorne | Marissa Meyer | |
| 4d5fd03 | Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately. | jealousy prince-kai thorne | Marissa Meyer | |
| 12c4f81 | What is any ocean but a multitude of drops? | David Mitchell | ||
| 756bb9c | That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things." But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror." I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me." | horror-movies humor killers stupidity | Eoin Colfer |